Lisa Power Salon (536 Fifth Ave. W.) recently raised more than $3,000 during a fund-raising event on June 22 for the Justice and Soul Foundation, which is focused on reducing human trafficking while providing cosmetology training to survivors.
Salon team members donated all service and retail sales proceeds to the Justice and Soul Foundation during the event. Fund-raisers over the last five years have raised more than $25,000 for breast-cancer research.
“Founder Matthew Fairfax owns a prominent salon in the Seattle area and started the [Justice and Soul] Foundation with the focused goal of building awareness and working toward elimination of sexual exploitation of young women and children globally as well as the restoration of the survivors. This is accomplished by training survivors in the beauty industry so that they can build a sustainable career and help other survivors,” Power explained.
Fairfax has recently moved to Cambodia to continue the efforts of the organization, including establishing a school to teach the fundamentals of cosmetology as a means to develop financial independence for the students. The organization will employ qualified therapists to address the trauma experienced by the victims, while assisting survivors with necessary transitions.
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